Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-12-29
The Weekly Exposition.
PUBLISHED ON THURSDAYS.
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JAS. "A. MENzIEs,
Editor IL PrOprietOr.
sRouKwAY CENTRE MARKET,
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

cake is better than liver pad these
frosty mornings.
There is no condition so low that
may have hopes and none so high that
may have fears.
An opportunity once lost is never re-
covered. Life is q railroad train that
waits for no baggage. If you want to
ride be on time.
An oyster on four legs was caught
the other day, in the Choptank, River,
Nd. by William f. Bradley. 1t was Il
good-sized terrapin with healthy.
well-developed oyster OH his back.
Six gray-haired and feeble old men
gathered around the death-bed of their
father, John Yocum, of Valley Bend,
w. Va. few days ago. The father
was l05 years old, and. until his last
illness, had not been sick for seventy
five years.
a rather unpleasant discovery was
made by James Houston, of Cane Hill,
Ark, the other night. Looking under
his bed. he discovered huge snake.
After removing his wife to aneighbor's
for safety he returned and killed the SER
pent with a pitchfork. 1t measured
eleven feet nine inches in length, and
had recently swallowed three young
kittens.
When Jacob Trochbach, of Portage
Ohio, died. fifteen years ago. a long and
unavailing hunt was made for his
money, for it was known that he was a
great miser X few days ago it was
unexpectedly discovered by two wood
choppers in hole in tree near the
old miser's home. They found gold
silver and notes to the value of ten
thousand dollars.
For conniving at the crimes of no.
torious robbers. eleven of the detective
officers of Moscow have been sentenced
to various terms of Imprisonment five
of them to hard labor in the Siberian
mines. The detectives were denounc-
ed in aprivate letter to the Car, writ
ten by thief who had refused to Oper-
ate with the officers and divide his
plumber with them.
A blunder in dark closet almost
proved fatal to Justice Selleck. of Nor
walk, Conn. 1t was his intention to
take some acid phosphate, but instead
he took some oxalic acid. His wife at
once poued into him a big cup of cof-
fee, a raw egg, a lot Of castor oil, and Il
glass of milk. OF course the acid had
no show, and the judge lived but he
can't tell which made the liveiest cir
Gus in mis- stomach, the poison or the
antldOtcs
1t took just so minutes to reduce to
ashes the remains of Mrs. Barbara
Panzner, aged 81, who died at her home
5G6 Antoine-st., last Wednesday. The
incarceration took place last Saturday
afternoon at the crematory and was
one Of the most successful and expedi-
tious Oh record. TO bring the crema-
tory to proper and equal temperature
the furnace fire was started last Thurs
day. This and other precautions insur-
ed the success of the cremation.
n woman formerly employed in the
bureau of engraving and printing, died
on Thursday from the effects of poison
in the ink used in printing greenbacks.
While handling sheets of the bills
when fresh from the ink. she inhaled the
poisonous matter, and acquired a
disease from which she never recover
ed. The ink used upon the greenbacks
is the same as that used in printing the
new two-cent stamps, and It's undoubt-
eddy dangerous to mOisten the backs of
these stamps with the lips or tongue as
many persons do
The Flint Globe very truthfully says:
There is class of subscribers who
think Il local paper ought to be
afforded as cheaply as metro
politan paper. The fact is there
is 10 metropolitan paper that posses
SEES bali the actual value to the resident
of a given locality that the local paper
does. and four times the actual price
of the local paper would be the cheap
or. The home paper is the constant
and vigilant promoter of the business
interest of the local community, and of
every business and working man i'll it..
The home paper fights for home inter-
ests and is the disinterested champion
of every citizen WHO makes a living by
honest work or honest production or
exchange of commodities. The farmer
perhaps, most of all, but the merchant,
the manufacturer and laborer. each in